Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-05-12
THE NEWS.

A strike has closed up the Star Glass
Works at Newark. o.
Ft. Wayne Qnd) will pipe gas from
Eaton, 4S miles distant.
A six hundred barrel oil we'll was
struck last week at st. Mary's o.
The Republican state convention will
be held in Toledo, July 27 and 2S.
An earthquake was felt Tuesday af
ternoon at Ell Paso, Texas, of last week.
Fraudulent school bonds of Lincoln
county, Neb., are in circulation in the
east.
The price of crude oil in the Lima
fields has been reduced to 7517 cents per
barrel.
Heavy rains are reported in portions
of Texas that have been suffering from
dreuth.
Chss K Gaines, a blind man was con-
victed of murder in the second degree at
Tiffin, o.
Richmond Qnd.) Republicans elected
their candidates for Mayor and all the
city Offices
Forsn declines to allow the use of
his name as the Democratic candidate
for governor.
Munice. Ind, claims to have struck
the largest gas well in the world-twelve
million feet per day.
The connecticut house passed bill
nls 2 ala
district school boards.
Miss Missouri Stanley succeeds the
late Matilda Stanley AS Queen of the
Gypsies of the United States.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland will
lecture on American History in New
York school for young ladies.
The Chicago water supply is reported
endangered on account of the condition
of the "crib" in Lake Michigan.
Charles Morrow, while drunk, shot
land killed his wife and himself at Mich
olville, st. Lawrence county, n. Y.
Senator Sherman says there can be no
truuh in the story that party Of bant
dts planned to capture him in Cuba.
Ninety acres of land near Wyandotte,
KS. has been purchased by syndicate
of Kansas City capitalists for $4,000 an
acre.
A caucus of Republican state senators
at Albany resolved to reject Governor
Hills nominees for railroad commits
sioners.
The Mexican senate passed unani
mously the bill repeating the constitu-
tional prohibition of second term for
president.
The Connecticut house passed reso-
luton providing for constitutional
amendment the manufacture and sale
of liquors.
Mrs Ida Antony, of Plainfeld. n. j.,
has sued Miss Jeanette Ballou for $780,
900 damages for alternating her husbands
affections.
DR. Edward Knox, of Fentress county
Tenn, whipped his son so severely with
black snake whip that he died. The
father has disappeared.
Twelve men were killed by the pre-
mature explosion of blast at Cross
tunnel. on the Goodwater extension Of
the Georgia Central railroad.
The Ohio supreme court decides the
Cleveland board of alderman a legal
body. The decision puts the Democracy
in possession of the city offices.
Cora Sullivan. daughter of a wealthy
citizen of Montgomery county, Mo, sur
cided with chloral. She left note say
ing she was possessed of devil.
John W Lewis, colored letter carrier
who has beeh in the Cincinnati post
Office for II years, was arrested for rob-
bing the mails and pleaded guilty.
The troops are to be Withdrawn from
the Paulding county reservoir on the
assurance of the authorities that the
states property will be protected.
Capt F W Dawson, editor of the
Charleston News and Courier, says he is
going to sue the New York Sun for
libel, putting his damages at 100000.
An Objectionable editorial is the cause.
In quarrel at Jackson, Miss, R S
Gambrell and Colonel Jones S Hamilton
fired at each other simultaneously, and
about an article in a paper edited by
Gam brell.
Prof Orton, state geologist of Ohio.
says the Indiana gas fields extend over
2O0O SO. miles, and at no place near the
center of the fields have the seekers
failed to find gas in almost unlimited
quantities.
At Dallas, Texas, NJ Mulligan, a
farmer. became engaged in an alterca-
tion with Emanuel Diaz, Mexican
tamale vender. In the fracas that en-
sued, Mulligan was pierced with still
leto and killed.
The q S commercial agent at London,
Canada, writes to the state department
explaining that the operation of the
interstate commerce law is seriously
damaging the trade between the United
States and Canada.
William Black, of Daleville. Ind,
charged with whipping two step~chil
dren to death, was taken out of MS
house by vigilance committee, strip
ped and lashed with buggy whips and
ordered to leave town.
Violent earthquake shoe ks were felt
in Arizona and southe IN California,
Tuesday of last week. Volcanic erup
tions are reported at different points. A
lake near Tombstone, Arizona, was
dried in a few minutes.
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